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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is another term which referred to the dust storms during the Dust Bowl?
(a) Terror Blizzards.
(b) Red Storms.
(c) Black Blizzards.
(d) Black Storms.

2. What city in Kern County, California is located 31 miles north-northwest of Bakersfield?
(a) Eureka, CA.
(b) Delano, CA.
(c) Sacramento, CA.
(d) San Francisco, CA.

3. What town did the Okies first cross through in California?
(a) Needles.
(b) Sacramento.
(c) Berkeley.
(d) Whitney.

4. When had the Great Depression begun?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1932.

5. Who established the Soil Erosion Service in August 1933?
(a) Jimmy Carter.
(b) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(c) Harry Truman.
(d) Harold L. Ickes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were Okies allowed to sit in movie theaters during their discrimination in California?

2. Some California teachers segregated the Okie children and made them sit where?

3. What would people sleep with on their faces to protect themselves from the dust?

4. People in California during the Dust Bowl period made the observation that there were more Okies than there were what?

5. How many members were in Rosalene Long's family?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Okies travel through the Mojave Desert? Why?

2. Describe the Weedpatch Camp. Where was it located?

3. Who suffered the most from prejudice among the Okies? Why?

4. What dangers did the Okies face in the Black Mountains? What followed that?

5. What were the Okies' impressions of Tehachapi Grade? What was the view looking down?

6. When did the great migration west begin? Who traveled this route?

7. What was the Mother Road? What dangers did it hold?

8. How does Jerry Stanley describe the Oklahoma Panhandle farmers of the 1930s?

9. Where did the Okies form communities after arriving in California? What did they eat there?

10. What physical dangers existed due to the dust storms in the Dust Bowl? What sickness arose?

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